Ironing board



J. A. OWEN IRONING BOARD Filed Sept. 24, 1925 Aug. 20, 1929.

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Patented Aug. 20, 1929.

UNITED STATES JAMES A. OWEN, OF MARNE, MICHIGAN.

IBONING BOARD.

Application filed September 24, 1925. Serial No. 58,278.

My invention relates to improvements in ironing boards for domestic use, and its objects are: first, to provide a means whereby the clothes to be ironed may be readily and easily stored beneath the board in a position for the convenience of the ironer; second, to provide a means of safely storing the clothes after they have been ironed; third, to provide a means whereby sheets, table cloths and like laundered articles may be hung up in position to avoid the danger of mussing or wrinkling them after they have been ironed; and, fourth, to provide an ironing board of the kind described that may be readily and conveniently folded into very small compass for storing away when not in use.

I attain these objects by the arrangement and construction of parts shown in the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1 is a front elevation of my device with the ironing board removed to show its construction, Fig. 2 is a plan of the same; Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the device in position for use, with the ironing board in place; Fig. 4 is an end elevation of the device folded in position for storing away; Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the end of the top braces or girts of the frame showing a modified construction consisting of a metal plate for locking the top brace or girt 3 upon the front leg of the device; and Fig. 6 is a sectional end View of the same on the line 66 of Fig. 5.

Similar reference characters indicate similar parts throughout the several views.

In the construction of this device I make use of two pairs of legs, 1 and 2, crossed, and pivotally connected, as at f in Fig. 3. I then secure cross girts 4 and 5 to both the front and the back legs as shown, and place cross braces 6 in position between said girts to strengthen the frame and prevent endwise swaying of the frame. I then lace supporting elements 7 up the frame thus made, in such a manner that they will unite with the cross girts and braces to form a receiving basket for clothes that are to be ironed, or that have been ironed.

I make the hind legs, 1, somewhat longer than the front legs 2, and pass a bar 8 across lengthwise of the frame for hanging sheets, etc. upon after they have been ironed. To hold the frame in proper positions when in use I place end braces or girts, 3, thereon. These girts are pivotally connected with the back legs of the frame, as at a, and adjustably connected with the front legs 2, as by the pin 6, and the girts are so arranged that the top of the frame may be made broad or narrow, as desired, by changing the notches 0 upon the securing element b.

In Figs. 3 and 4 I have shown the girts 3 as constructed with notches 0 adapted to receive the pins 1) carried by the legs 2. Preferably each of these girts 3 carries a sheet metal plate 10 on its side provided with notches c registering with the notches of said girts and adapted to receive the pins 6.

The supporting elements 7 are pliable so the frame may be readily opened and closed.

I prefer that the supporting elements 7 be passed through holes in the cross girts 5, as shown in Fig. 2, as it is much more convenient to apply them in this manner than it would be to tack or staple them in place upon the girts, and they are much less liable to be disconnected therefrom than if secured with staples or tacks.

The free ends of the wooden girts or braces 3 are recessed as indicated at and the edges of the metallic plate 10 adjacent the notches overhang such recess, so that the head d of the bolt 7) is held by such edges against outward movement in the longitudinal direction of the bolt.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new in the art, is:

A structure of the character described com prising: a plurality of pairs of legs, the legs of each pair being pivotally connected intermediate their ends and the corresponding legs of opposite pairs being connected together by braces; girts for said pairs respectively, each girt being pivotally mounted at one of its ends near the upper end of one leg of the corresponding pair and having at its other end a plurality of upwardly extending recesses and a plate provided with upwardly extending notches whose edges overhang the recesses, the other leg of the corresponding pair having at its upper end a headed bolt whose shank is adapted to be removably received in any one of the notches and whose head is adapted to be received in the recess and held by the plate against outward movement; and an ironing board supported on the girts.

Signed at Grand Rapids, Michigan, September 18, 1925.

JAMES A. OWEN. 

